Message 217309 - Python tracker

> Hm...
> What's /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory ?
> If it's set to 0, then the kernel will always overcommit.

Ah, indeed.

> If you set it to 2, normally you'd definitely get ENOMEM

You're right, but with weird results:

$ gcc -o /tmp/test test.c; /tmp/test
malloc() returned NULL after 600MB
$ gcc -DDO_MEMSET -o /tmp/test test.c; /tmp/test
malloc() returned NULL after 600MB

(I'm supposed to have gigabytes free?!)